Edirol Corporation released new Panther-ready drivers for all current OS X compatible products. Edirol released Panther support for 26 products including a number of earlier devices no longer in production, such as the PC-300 USB MIDI Keyboard controller & the UM-4 (aka S/MPU-64) USB MIDI interface. Updates are available on download, and the complete list of these new drivers is posted on

The Dave Smith Evolver just reached V 2.0 of its software, adding a 4th bank (512 programs in all now), new modulations, synchronous program changing with the sequencer running, tap tempo, longer envelopes, new glide and new trigger modes, new clock mode for the sequencer, and much much more… and an easter egg (bank 4, patch 16)

Yodelheehoo! Our MM friend Synthetic has conducted a nicy electronic interview with Dave Smith, programmer of the Evolver and the father of Midi.

The demo for the cs80v from Arturia is available at. The CS80V is an emulation of the famous Yamaha CS80: Wonderful but uses a lot of processor power. This virtual instrument is available as a VSTi plug-in for OS9 and OSX

MOTU has posted updated drivers for all MOTU FireWire audio interfaces and PCI audio interfaces to make them fully compatible with Panther.

In addition, MOTU has posted an updater for Digital Performer, Version 4.11 (available free of charge to all registered DP4 users), which is required for full Panther compatibility.